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  • 07-10-2005 3:45pm
    #1
    The Forsaken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭


    Lads im new to this forum but would really apreciate help. My second hard drive is curupted (i think) if i restart the pc and plug out and back in the ide cable it will read it and when i try browsing the hard drive it gives up tells me cant read from this source, i know its not the cable just got a new one, i have some very important ocuments on the drive! what do i do? the fact that i can see these files does that mean that it might bwe possible to recover them??????

    please help please..........................


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  • #2
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Ok, you should not be removing the IDE cable when the computer's on.

    You /may/ not be able to recover the files, but you probably will be. Can you give us some more information: Is it your windows drive? Does it get recognised by the bios?


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Does the drive make any "k" noises or softer "G" noises

    Klunk KlicK = not good - if it's a head crash then playing with the IDE / swapping the motherboard won't do anything, with many drives the disk will trash and can damage the controller trying to find an area the dead head could read.

    ONLY If the BIOS doesn't recognise a drive and you have a sacrificial drive of the same type, then as a last resort, you can power up with the good drive and swap over the IDE cable.


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